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Oberwart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oberwart (Hungarian: Felsőőr, Croatian: Gornja Borta) is a town in Burgenland in Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district denominated by the same name. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minority in Burgenland, living in the Upper Őrség or Wart microregion. The new coat-of-arms of Oberwart was granted in 1972. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberwart   (1054 words)

Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Burgenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) It consists of two Statutarstädte (towns with a charter) and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. In 1923, emigration to the United States of America, which started in the late 19th century, reached its climax; in some places up to a quarter of the population went overseas. After the Nazi German Anschluss of Austria, the administrative unit Burgenland was dissolved and integrated into the districts of Niederdonau (Lower Danube) and Steiermark (Styria). www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki?title=Burgenland   (2231 words)

HKD - Hrvatsko kulturno druątvo : info In none of those districts ethnic Croats are a majority, from a relative point of view, most ethnic Croats live in the district of Oberpullendorf and in absolute figures most of them live in the district of Eisenstadt. Only the district of Oberpullendorf and in part the district of Eisenstadt show a more or less compact ethnic Croatian respectively an increasingly bilingual speaking area. Oberwart: Rotenturm an der Pinka/Verešvar, Schachendorf/Cajta, Schandorf/Cemba, Weiden bei Reichnitz/Bandol. www.hkd.at /iinfogb.htm   (3517 words)

NÖN - Niederösterreichische Nachrichten | ENGLISCH-THEMEN The number of districts in each state is determined by population. Primaries may be held at all levels of government, including local contests for mayor, district races for the U.S. House of Representatives, statewide elections for governor or U.S. senator, and president of the United States. The candidate who receives a majority of the votes in a particular state receives all of that state's electoral votes, which means that the electors vote en block. www.noen.at /redaktion/referateboerse/article.asp?text=88733&cat=375   (3644 words)

BG - Burgenlaendische Gemeinschaft 1/2 2001 Nr.369 At the beginning of the thirties there was a wave of emigration especially from the district of Mattersburg to South Africa. In the States 20.000 former Oberwart citizens still live in Chicago today, South Bend is a self-contained settlement of Croates from the district of Oberpullendorf. Emigrants especially from the district of Güssing live in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania with its centre in Allentown. www.burgenlaender.com /~burgenla/BG/Zeitung/2001/369/abroad.html   (883 words)

Austria The registration consists of a District code followed by the coat-of-arms of the Province with the name below. The plates are white on blue and on the right is a red band with the last two digits of the year of expiry in white, in this case 2002. After the district code is the coat-of-arms of the province with the name below. www.licenseplatemania.com /landenpaginas/oostenrijk.htm   (1395 words)

Burgenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Geographically, Burgenland is divided into three parts: the low-lying lands of Burgenland around Eisenstadt, Neusiedl and Mattersburg to the north of the Ödenburg Mountains; the hilly region of central Burgenland near Oberpullendorf, between Ödenburg and Güns Mountains; and the hilly region near Oberwart and Güssing south of the Bernstein and Güns Mountains. An increase in overnight stays from about 1 million in 1970 to 2,2 million in 1998 was recorded in Burgenland (the number of beds available for accommodation has risen from 10,600 to 21,300). Districts of Burgenland (Statistics as of Jan. 1, 1993) www.aeiou.at /aeiou.encyclop.b/b944915_en.htm   (2820 words)

EURO IUS-INFO European Court of Human Rights - CASE OF HENNIG v. AUSTRIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Therein he asked that his income tax declarations for the years 1985 to 1987 be corrected, so that the losses declared be cancelled, in particular ATS 541,585 for the year 1985; ATS 1 million for 1986 and ATS 220,000 for 1987. On 17 May 1993 the Oberwart Tax Office replied to the Salzburg Tax Office that the file could not be transferred because of pending investigations. On 8 August 1994, when interrogated by the Oberwart District Court, the applicant stated that he wished to submit his comments in writing directly to the Salzburg Regional Court by 31 August 1994. www.ius-software.si /EUII/EUCHR/dokumenti/2003/10/CASE_OF_HENNIG_v._AUSTRIA_02_10_2003.html   (2869 words)

Weiden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Municipality of Weiden bei Rechnitz in the district of Oberwart in the Burgenland Municipality of Weiden an der March in the district of Gänserndorf in Lower Austria This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weiden   (174 words)

DISTRICTSPLATES - austria If you know the code letters of the district, you can easily find it in the plate because districts which belong to the same land are painted in the same colour, only in different tones. It is used one letter or two letters on the left of the plate to show the district. All districts and land are listed below: they are sorted so that you can see the correspondence between code district and land. districtsplates.interfree.it /new_austria.htm   (180 words)

[No title] For the units where district population was not enumerated, a region level growth rate was used to extrapolate the population to 1990. (3) The population 2000 figure for South East district was created by adding 2000 data for South East and Lobatse (4) The population 2000 data for Serowe and Palapye districts were created by splitting the 2000 Serowe/Palapye figure and distributing it according to the population 1990 proportions. 2000 data for Southern district was then split in proportion to the population 1990 data, with South and Central assumed to be one data entry, and assigned to Ngwaketse North and South. sedac.ciesin.org /gpw/spreadsheets/GPW3_GRUMP_SummaryInformation_Oct05prod.xls   (2913 words)

Riedlingsdorf History It is a Katastral (land office) Gemeinde (locality) in the Bezirk (district) of Oberwart, has 1551 inhabitants and 597 houses. From pieces of metal, pottery and coins we may conclude that these graves were established in the period when present-day Burgenland was part of the Roman province of Pannonia, that is to say approximately in the first four centuries AD. The large number of burial mounds from the Roman period leads one to the conclusion that a road passed through the district of present-day Riedlingsdorf. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jfleck/riedlingsdorfhistory.htm   (4247 words)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Examination of the scene of the crime and subsequent investigations led to the conclusion that the four were victims of a cowardly bomb attack. The Oberwart attack deliberately targeted the Romanies, whose status as a national minority in Austria was officially recognized in 1993. The first anniversary of the Oberwart attack was commemorated in several ceremonies in Austria with public homage to the memory of the victims. www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/0f214249449161b1802566cf003caa35?Opendocument   (13515 words)

Austria Definitive Series - Holidays in Austria In southern Burgenland, 23 km southeast of Oberwart, close to the Hungarian border, at the foot of the vineyard bearing the same name, nestles Eisenberg, a village with a population of 400. As early as 1500 BC there was a settlement here, as can be concluded by findings of fragments, a clay spoon and pieces of serpentine. It is precisely at this point (in the district of St. Georgen am Längsee) that stands the 16th century Gothic wayside shrine reproduced by Adolf Tuma on this new stamp. www.geocities.com /WallStreet/Bureau/5382/2003NewIssue/20030530_2.html   (1095 words)

Griesbacher Family Newsletter, volume 6 It is a market town and maintains district jurisdiction similar to a small county seat here in the USA. I took some photos of the main street, the city hall, courthouse and the old catholic church where our 5th great-grandfather, Johan Griesbacher, son of Carl Griesbacher and Eva-Maria Panzenpeck, was baptized on December 26, 1750. From Oberwart I drove to Veszprém City in Hungary arriving about 10:30 in the dark and had some trouble finding the Penzion Diana Fogado where I had reserved a room. www.chrisbacher.net /~ernest/gfnews6/gfnews.html   (4318 words)

HRVATSKI Family: Indo-European, Slavic Region: The Croatian ethnic group in Burgenland lives in six (Neusiedl/Niuzalj, Eisenstadt/_eljezno, Mattersburg/Matrštof, Oberpullendorf/Gornja Pulja, Oberwart/Borta, Güssing/Novi Grad) of the state`s seven districts. They are strongest in relative terms in the Oberpullendorf district, and are strongest in absolute terms in the Eisenstadt district. Compact Croatian regions that are now increasingly becoming bilingual exist only in the Oberpullendorf and Eisenstadt districts. dev.eurac.edu:8085 /mugs2/do/blob.html?type=html&serial=1046096765001   (815 words)

U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Austria: Language in everyday life Before 1989, there were no legal provisions for the teaching of Croatian at a nursery school level and thus the use of the minority language depended entirely on the initiative of nursery school teachers. In 1989, the amendment to the Kindergarten Law for Burgenland (the Burgenländisches Kindergartengesetz) introduced bilingual pre-school education in German and Croatian in 25 municipalities in 6 districts. In all other municipalities of Burgenland education in Croatian has to be provided for six hours a week if 25 percent of the parents request it. www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=13&TID=6   (5232 words)

[Romani] Projekt / THE ROMA OF BURGENLAND Larger settlements are found in the Wart (= Oberwart and surrounding communities), some Roma or Roma families live in middle and northern areas of Burgenland or, as mentioned before, have settled in cities of eastern Austria. Not only the Roma settlement near Oberwart, the economic center of southern Burgenland, due to its location seems like a ghetto on the edge of the town. It needs to be noted that the term Romungri, which is frequently used by other groups for the Roma that have been living for a long period of time in the region of Hungarian influence, has pejorative connotations. romani.uni-graz.at /romani/ling/bgld.en.shtml   (5048 words)

Domain Analysis Sherpa Nepali Language use Among Sherpas in Nepal by Barbara Pijan Lama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Gal measured language shift from Hungarian to German by asking sixty-eight Oberwart Hungarian-German bilinguals in which language they most often chose to speak to God; grandparents; parents; friends/neighbors; brothers and sisters; salespeople; spouse; children; and young strangers. Many hotels and restaurants in the tourist district are Tibetan-owned, so Tibetan is frequently used to show solidarity to gain advantage in price negotiations. Sherpa, Tibetan, Nepali, and English all spoken by Sharwa in the tourist quarter. www.bena.com /sherpa1/School_Papers/Ling_domains_Sharwa.htm   (2865 words)

Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Vas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Vas claims this is a critical primary for the 13th Congressional District and has positioned himself as a man of the people. Vas an assemblyman and the mayor of Perth Amboy is running against Sires an assemblyman and the mayor of West New York in the June 6 primary for the vacant 13th District U.S. House of Representatives seat. During an editorial board meeting with The Jersey Journal Vas said Sires through his influence as mayor "created" the three assistant superintendent positions - including the post his wife now holds.... www.blinkbits.com /blinks/vas   (675 words)

HRVATSKI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The Croatian ethnic group in Burgenland lives in six (Neusiedl/Niuzalj, Eisenstadt, Mattersburg/Matrštof, Oberpullendorf/Gornja Pulja, Oberwart/Borta, Güssing/Novi Grad) of the state`s seven districts. A substantial segment of the Croatian ethnic group has moved to Vienna, mainly because of economic reasons, like job shortages in Burgenland. Croatian is also spoken as a lesser used language in Moliser and Campobasso (Italy). www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t43gb.htm   (663 words)

Entries starting with S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Born: Oberwart, Burgenland (October 15, 1928); daughter of Alexander and Lydia Szabo (née Adorsan). Personal remarks: Both our children have completed their university education and have good jobs --Michael for the Ministry of the Environment of British Columbia, and Ellen for Aventis Pasteur in Toronto. Born: Oberwart, Burgenland (October 9, 1921); son of Ludwig and Lydia Seper. www.arts.ualberta.ca /CCAuCES/dictionary/s.htm   (9820 words)

BB News No. 113 dtd. December 31, 2002 The district judge ("Stuhlrichter," the highest civil servant of the district) arrived from Güssing with the intention to settle the conflict. In this case, however, the story goes that the people of Zahling locked the district judge into a pigsty and roughed him up with pumpkins. Now military was called in, and all the leaders and instigators received 25 (with the cane) on their posteriors. www.rootsweb.com /~autbur/nl1130.htm   (8965 words)

BB News No. 122 dtd. October 31, 2002 Unfortunately the records were devastated when the Turks went against Vienna (1683), and the whole district was burned down and lost. There is a church in Oberwart which I believe to be the local church that my family attended since I have a wedding certificate for my grandparents from a church in Oberwart. I have been to the cemetery in the town of Dreihutten and there are many Zumpfs but the family claims that they are not related to my grandfather which I find odd but "who knows". www.rootsweb.com /~autbur/nl1220.htm   (8159 words)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on On 16 July, on the occasion of the ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the round-up at the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the President of the French Republic recognized for the first time France's share of responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Second World War and the State's permanent debt to the victims. In Portugal, there are programmes and activities aimed at promoting harmony, tolerance, dialogue and solidarity among peoples. 73/ The resolution was adopted in reaction to the attempted murder of four Roms at Oberwart on 5 February, and the bomb attack against the Croatian minority in a neighbouring village. www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/2848af408d01ec0ac1256609004e770b/085fa9371cf4c3738025671c005b043c?OpenDocument   (8631 words)

Burgenland Bunch press release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) There are villages with German names that were once known by Hungarian or Croat names, and vice versa. Locations for civil records have moved as the political winds shifted district (Bezirk) and community (Gemeinde) offices. Villagers, depending on religion, attended churches in neighboring villages, and church records followed suit. users.spacestar.net /hapander/BBPress.html   (1011 words)

Burgenland Village Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) You can trace the progress of my sites, find out what's new Jennersdorf - Güssing - Oberwart - Oberpullendorf - Mattersburg - Eisenstadt - Neusiedl Here you can find maps of all of the Burgenland districts and the nearby neighbour reagions. www.burgenland-bunch.org /Map/VillageMaps.htm   (148 words)

Burgenland: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) [For more, click on this link], Neusiedl am See[Click link for more facts about this topic], Oberpullendorf[Click link for more facts about this topic], and Oberwart Oberwart (hungarian: felsr) is a town in burgenland in austria and the capital of the district denominated by the same name.... The name "Burgenland" comes from "Vierburgenland" (Land of Four Counties), derived from the four Hungarian districts now known as Bratislava Capital and largest city of Slovakia [Click link for more facts about this topic] of Austria, the administrative unit Burgenland was dissolved and integrated into the districts of Niederdonau (Lower Danube) and Steiermark[For more, click on this link] (Styria). www.absoluteastronomy.com /b/burgenland   (2475 words)

BB News No. 130 dtd July 31, 2004 In a message dated 5/31/04, albert.schuch@gmx.at writes: Could you please publish the following in one of the next newsletters: Ms Helga Kirchsteiger is looking for descendants of Franz Derdits, a native of Oberwart (town or district?). Today Mattersburg is one of the seven district towns (Bezirk) which comprise Burgenland. Another group of 60 or 80 Hungarian speakers are known to have emigrated from the region of Oberwart. www.rootsweb.com /~autbur/nl1300.htm   (8862 words)

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